One of the most accomplished authors in history, Tolstoy has inspired and influenced generations of readers. While celebrated for his masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace, his short stories are just as compelling. This collection includes 'The Story of Ivan the Fool', 'Ilys',...

One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God.and Beyond Good and Eviland demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy,...

One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptfordand re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures...

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes... combining a plain and at times almost colloquial...

One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and...

One of the most widely read books of all time, Carlo Collodi'sand Pinocchioand is a riotous, tragicomic tale that will charm young and old with its endearing blend of mischief and magic.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics...

One of those gorgeous books that completely lifts your spirits and restores your faith in humanity' -and Ruth Jones, co-creator ofand Gavin and Staceyand and bestselling author ofand Us Three----It was a journey they would always remember . . . for a friend they'd...

One private island. Seven guests. One killer... The perfect holiday. The perfect murder. The perfect beach read.

One sister is a cop.The other a con artist.Both are suspects. A tasty whodunnit'and The Sun'Three deviously clever impossible crimes' Gigi Pandian'I especially loved the strident, salty, can't-live-with-can't-live-without relationship between the two sisters' J.M. Hall'I was gripped' Louise Jensen Ingenious, fun and very different...

One small act can make a big differenceViolet Strong is strong by name but not by nature, or so she thinks. She listens but never talks about herself. She's friendly but doesn't have many real friends. She's become good at keeping people at a...

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong,...

One worm, two toucans, three bears-play and count with Gray Rabbit.Young children will enjoy following Alan Baker's inquisitive LITTLE RABBITS as they make new discoveries. Simple storylines and playful artwork offer a fresh approach to learning early concepts.

OR FANS OFand ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, A LUSH, SWEEPING LOVE STORY ABOUT A HINDU PERFUMER AND A MUSLIM CALLIGRAPHER, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF PARTITION“Monumental…A far-reaching love story. -NPR (A Best Book of the Year)“Mesmerizing. -Publishers Weeklyand (starred review)“Exquisite. -Library Journaland...

'Original, thought-provoking' - Elizabeth MacnealMona and Wolfie have lived on Victoria Park for over fifty years. Now, on the eve of their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary, they must decide how to navigate Mona's declining health. Bookended by the touching exploration of their love, Victoria Park...

Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius'sand Meditationsand has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual...

Other Names for Love opens on a night train across the desert. Sixteen-year-old Fahad is travelling with his father Rafik to the family's farmlands, tamed from the jungle and now the source of their wealth and power. Fahad doesn't want to be there- he...

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDESOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONEand NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLER'Painfully beautiful'and New York Times'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving'and Daily Mail'A rare achievement'and The Times'I can't even express how much I love...

Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings....

Owen Nicholls'and Love, Unscriptedand follows film projectionist Nick as he tries to understand why love isn't always like the movies. Perfect for fans of romcoms, David Nicholls and Nick Hornby.'Sometimes a book comes along and it feels dusted with magic -and Love, Unscriptedand is...

Pacey and visceral.'and Sunday Times'Imbued with the noirish urgency of a page-turning thriller.'and Irish Times'A tear-struck revelation.'and MEGAN ABBOTTBetween looking after her brother, working two low-paid jobs, and trying to take part-time college classes, Lynette is dangerously tired. Every penny she's earned for years,...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale ofand Beren and Lúthienand will reunite fans ofand The Hobbitand andand The Lord of the Ringsand with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and...

PALE TERROR GOES BEFORE HIM, DEATH AND DEVASTATION FOLLOW!'From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.

Paradise Lost tells of the expulsion from Eden and the war of Heaven that followed, exploring the fall of humanity and the rebellion of the fallen angels from the perspective of Satan and mortal kind. Milton's epic poem, written in 10,000 lines of blank...

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change.When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle...

'Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and completely entertaining.' Karen M. McManus, author of One Of Us Is Lying The most popular girl in school is dead - and everyone's blaming the wrong guy. When Alice Ogilvie ran away last summer, her disappearance was...

Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert'sand A Sentimental Educationand is translated by Robert Baldick and revised with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall in Penguin Classics.Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy...

Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere ...As darkness falls,...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIndependent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designWhen Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth ...The night...

Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. 'One feels a brilliant, vivid and hurt mind walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair.' New York Times 'A...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the...

Peacesand is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the...

Pearland is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by...

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,and Atlas Shruggedand is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. It is the story of a man who said that he would...

Perfect for anyone who loves fast-paced action with strong, memorable characters who drive the story forward with a combination of ingenuity and incompetence. Highly recommended'and BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETYBOOK 2 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING TIME POLICE SERIES, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST...

Perfect lives. Perfect lies.The brand new novel from the global bestselling author ofand The Devil Wears PradaPeyton Marcus is the woman New York wakes up to, anchor of the most-watched morning show in the city. With a husband who adores her and a daughter...

Philosophy in Minutesand distils 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections.The core information for every topic - including debates such as the role of philosophy in science and religion, key thinkers from Aristotle to Marx, and introductions to morality...

Picking up where Jules Verne'sand Around the World in Eighty Daysand left off, Phileas Fogg's teenage son, Harry, is in trouble. He has made a bet that he can drive a steam-powered motor-car around the world in 100 days. So along with a brilliant...

Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rockstars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe.Samir Jha...

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey'sand One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestand is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and...

Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane. The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's...

Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian'A small miracle' New Statesman'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' TelegraphAn introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds'...